Shutter-bower



(No Model.)

A. D. GOODWIN.

SHUTTER BOWER.

No. 439,000. Patented Oct. 21, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ADOLPHUS D. GOODWIN, OF SALEM, VIRGINIA.

SHUTTER-BOWER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,000, dated October21, 1890.

v Application filed May 26, 1890. Serial No. 353,179- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPHUS D. GooDWIN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Salem, State of Virginia, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Shutter- Workers; and I do declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference beinghad to theaccompanying drawings,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of the invention and is aperspective view. Fig. 2 isa vertical longitudinal section of theworker.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of devicesknown as shutter-workers, having for its object to provide for theconvenient and ready manipulation or opening and closing of the shuttersof a window and the holding of the same open at any desired angle; andit consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, ashereinafter disclosed.

In carrying out my invention I employ a tube A and a slide or rod A,telescoping the former and adj ustably engaged therewith by a set-screwB, thus rendering the connection The tube A is pivoted at its outer endto the shutter, a pin a passing transversely and vertically through theformer and bearing in the top and bottom plates or ears of a preferablytriangular bracket 6, secured directly to the inside of the shutter,close to its inner lower corner edge. The rod or bar A at its outer endis preferably fiat, and is provided with an aperture, curved or bentdownward and pivoted to the Window-sill, a pivot-screw a passing throughsaid aperture and entering the latter. The tube A is long enough toguard the sliding end of the bar A.

It will be seen that by loosening the setscrew B the shutter ispermitted to be thrown open to the maximum extent back against thehouse-wall, and by again tightening the screw the shutter is there heldto prevent its being blown to or otherwise accidentally closed, or theshutter may be retained in open position at any intermediate angle bymeans of the connection and set-screw. When the shutters are whollyclosed, it is obvious that by simply tightening the set-screw theshutters are securely locked or fastened, thus dispensing withshutter-fasteners as ordinarily employed. When the set-screw isloosened, the slide-connection operates automatically, and may serve asa handle device for moving the shutter to desired position.

In order to prevent the set-screw from beoomin g casually removed andlost, it is provided with a stop or catch at its inner end, as indicatedat 0;, said stop being received when the set-screw is loosened in aninside seat of the tubular slideway, the seat or recess being indicatedat ,2. It is important to provide this guard against the loss of theset-screw, which is liable, if detached, to fallout of the window.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

The extensible and contractible shutterworker consisting of the tubepivotally connected to the shutter and having an enlargement at one endprovided with a recess or seat at one side of its bore, the slide or rodtelescoping said tube and having a downward bent or curved outer endpivotally connected to the window-sill, and the set or holding screwworking in said enlargement of the tube and having a laterally-extendedstop at its inner end engaging said recess or seat and held therein whendisengaged from said rod, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affiit my signature in presence of two witnesses.

A. D. GOODWIN.

Witnesses PHILIP O. MASI, CHAS. L. TAYLOR.

